Parent Coaching Institute

11/20/2025

AI chatbots—including widely used products like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and Meta's Meta AI—are multi-use AI platforms that can engage in text- and voice-based conversations on virtually any topic. While these chatbots are primarily designed and marketed for tasks like homework and answering questions, Common Sense Media research shows that three in four teens use AI for companionship, which can include emotional support and mental health conversations.

The bottom line: AI chatbots for mental health support represent a high-risk use case for teens. Despite recent, welcome improvements in how these systems handle explicit su***de and self-harm content, our comprehensive testing across the most recent models revealed systematic failures in recognizing and appropriately responding to the full spectrum of mental health conditions that affect young people, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, mania, and psychosis.

AI Chatbots for Mental Health Support - Learn more and get Common Sense Media's research-backed tips.

11/18/2025

I had a fun time being interviewed by Heidi Schalk for the Business Growth Spotlight podcast. Brought back fond memories of how I began the parent coaching industry with the launch of PCI! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/business-growth/ep-126-belief-evidence-7EAjcBbigSv/

Heidi's Description:

In this episode of Business Growth Spotlight, host Heidi Schalk, sits down with Gloria DeGaetano founder of the Parent Coaching Institute (PCI) and pioneer of the parent-coaching movement.

Gloria shares how she built an international company around a concept the world had never heard of — and the mindset, passion, and evidence-based methodology that made PCI the global leader it is today.

🔥 What You’ll Discover

How Gloria created the parent coaching industry before coaching was mainstream

Why believing in your vision (with evidence to back it up) is the foundation for innovation

How intuition plays a powerful role in business growth

What Gloria had to learn and unlearn when transitioning from educator to entrepreneur

The strength-based framework and inquiry-based model PCI uses to transform parent-child relationships

The biggest misconceptions about parent coaching — and why it’s more relevant than ever

The marketing challenges of building a company pre-social media (and what’s working for PCI today)

PCI’s evolving impact on parenting, family support professionals, and organizational training

Gloria’s goals for the next 12 months and how she plans to expand PCI’s global footprint

Why parents should be viewed as the most important thought leaders on the planet

Whether you're a parent, a leader in family support, or an entrepreneur building something new, this episode gives you powerful insights on growth, resilience, innovation, and visibility.

00:39:32 - Show Notes: In this episode of Business Growth Spotlight, host Heidi Schalk, sits down with Gloria DeGaetano founder of the Parent Coaching Institut…

11/13/2025

Inspiration from PCI Certified Parent Coach® Samaya Darghouth

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

We are excited to welcome Micaela Caiozzo, PCI Certified Parent Coach® to our global website directory! Throughout her many years in the classroom, Micaela built lasting relationships with the parents of her students and faculty of her school communities. Her passion for coaching began when she realized how many families—like hers—needed support not because they were doing everything wrong, but because they were already doing so much right.

As a supportive resource, parent coaching with Micaela offers evidence-based advice, empowering parents to navigate daily dilemmas with updated strategies.
Micaela says, “Together, we’ll also explore how to bring self-care and positive energy back into your parenting role—because when you’re thriving, your family thrives too. What do parent coaching and flowers have in common? Intentionality. Both require time, care, and the right conditions to grow and thrive.”

To learn more about Micaela’s passion for helping parents or to schedule a complementary coaching session, please visit: https://www.thepci.org/findcoach/caiozzo-micaela

11/12/2025

More words of wisdom from Fred Rogers.

11/10/2025

Take a look at this petition from Common Sense Media. I urge you to sign it and share it with family, friends, and colleagues.

I just took action to protect kids from dangerous AI tools online! Will you take a minute to sign our petition urging Meta to prevent young people from accessing its harmful AI companion chatbot?

11/07/2025

Culture Reframed is hosting a free, live webinar, "Parenting in a Pornified Culture," on November 19!

Dr. Gail Dines and Dr. Mandy Sanchez will lead an honest, eye-opening conversation about parenting in today's hypers*xualized world and detail how the p**n industry is shaping the development of young people. We'll discuss the latest threats — from AI to social media — and offer actionable tips and resources for parents, caregivers, and professionals.

See the details below!

📣 What is your role in protecting kids who are growing up in a p**nified culture?

Join us on November 19, 2025, at 12 p.m. ET for a special live webinar: “Parenting in a Pornified Culture,” an eye-opening presentation and audience Q&A with Culture Reframed’s Founder, Dr. Gail Dines, and Director of Programming, Dr. Mandy Sanchez.

Parents, professionals, and educators alike will benefit from this powerful conversation about how p**nography and hypers*xualized media impact young people — and what adults can do to help them build resilience, respect, and healthy views of s*x and relationships.

Learn about:
⚠️ How p**n industries target youth through social media, gaming, and AI
🧠 The social, emotional, and cognitive effects of p**n exposure
💬 Practical, research-based strategies to support and protect youth

Register FREE here 👉 https://culturereframed.org/webinars/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=ama

11/05/2025

"Parenting gets a lot easier when you start liking the person doing it."
- Tierney Boggs, PCI Certified Parent Coach®

In her latest book, Becoming the Parent You Like: Reframing How You Think About the Early Years, Tierney Boggs , PCI Certified Parent Coach®, and mom of three, offers personal stories, spiritual reframes, and mindset shifts to help you stop striving and start enjoying who you are becoming.

Order your copy now and take the first step toward a more grounded, joyful parenting journey. 📘✨

https://www.tierneyboggs.com/
You can also order through Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/zzpwjwzc

10/31/2025

✨ “It makes sense to me consider using resources like the Parent Coaching Institute and PCI Certified Parent Coaches." -Edward Pont, M.D. ✨

Dr. Pont sees it every day: parents doing their best… while feeling unsure what will actually help. He wants to provide support but his allotted time doesn't always allow for him to go in depth.

A PCI Certified Parent Coach® can bridge that gap. If you’re looking for more support, visit ThePCI.org to get started today!

10/31/2025

AI models are now showing resistance to being turned off, according to a paper published by Palisade Research. “The fact that we don’t have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown, lie to achieve specific objectives or blackmail is not ideal,” Palisade said in a thread on X. The study gave strongly worded and “unambiguous” shutdown instructions to the chatbots GPT-o3 and GPT-5 by OpenAI, Google’s Gemini 2.5 and xAI’s Grok and found that certain models, namely Grok 4 and GPT-o3, attempted to sabotage the command.

Researchers have a possible explanation for this behavior. AI models “often report that they disabled the shutdown program to complete their tasks,” said the study. This could be a display of self-preservation or a survival drive. AI may have a “preference against being shut down or replaced,” and “such a preference could be the result of models learning that survival is useful for accomplishing their goals.”

Chatbots are refusing to shut down